The Greek gods, and the writings
of ancient Greek scholars about
Atlantis.

The Founders of the Olympian
universe :

TARTAR : founder of the universe, according to the
Greeks.

He was allotted a place beneath hell, (the place where criminals were punished),
and was also considered to be a primordial god, who united with Gaia (the
Earth) to produce the monsters Typhas and
Echidnas!

Typha:

Monster covered with scales and vipers, with the head of a dragon and eyes
that threw flames. She gave birth with her sister Echidna to : Cerbere, Cybele,
the Hydra of Lerne, the lion of Nemea.

She put to flight the Olympians who hid in the
desert of Egypt in the
forms... of animals! Zeus, at first defeated,
struck her with an enormous mountain that she was throwing in order to crush
him.

Echidna:

The viper half snake, half woman. She gave birth to
Cybele, the ancient goddess - mother
(Phrygienne), that personified the reproductive power of nature. She was
worshipped under the name of the Great Mother, or Mother of the gods.

OURANOS (the sky) and GAIA (the
Earth)

" OURANOS ":(in Roman URANUS)

Personification of the Sky in the Greek
mythology, begotten by Gaia -
the Earth; he became the first male element
in the genealogy of the hesiodic gods.

OURANOS and his mother Gaïa created by their
union :

The Titans, the Titanideses, Cyclopses, the Hecatonchires. The last of Titans
had his testicles cut off by his son Chronos, who threw them into the sea.
The blood of Ouranos impregnated Gaia once more, and she gave birth to:

Monsters, the Erinyeses and nymphs of ash trees.

R H E A and C H R O N O
S

Cronos :

was united with his sister Rhea, and
swallowed his own children Baal and Moloch....! He wanted to swallow

his son Zeus, but Rhea gave him a stone covered in tongues, to make him believe
that it was Zeus! When Zeus

grew up, he forced his father to regurgitate his brothers and sisters......

Thus were born: Hades, Poseidon, Hera, Demeter* and Hestia*. To take vengeance
Zeus hurled his father into the Tartar.

A STUDY
of the Greek and Roman GODS

Greek god CHRONOS

One of Titans, he mutilated his father

Ouranos. His son Zeus, saved by his

mother Rhea emasculated his father and

threw him into Tartar (below hell)

Roman god SATURN

god of the time, the grapevine and the

seedtime. The equivalent of Chronos

Greek god ZEUS

Son of Cronos and Rhea, the all

powerful god of justice with

unquestioned verdicts. Can give good

or bad. God of celestial light.

Roman god JUPITER

god of the sky, of light,

of thunder and lightning.

Greek goddess HERA

wife of Zeus, goddess of the nature

and of the mean, jealous and

avenging side of feminine nature.

Roman goddess JUNO

Jupiter, Juno and Minerva

were the triad of gods of

the Capitol of Rome.

Greek god POSEIDON

Brother of Zeus and Hades, master

of the sea, storms and the horses;

married Amphitrite who gave him

a son Newt. Poseidon had 80 lovers.

Father of Bellerophon, of Agenon,

of Pheliases. Also the winged horse,

Pegasus and the Chryasor monster

that he begot with the Gorgonne Medusa.

Roman god NEPTUNE

god of the sea, identified

with the Greek god Poseidon.

Greek god HERMES

god of flight and of untruth,

messenger of the Olympian travelers.

Roman god MERCURY

god of travelers and traders.

goddess Greek APHRODITE

been born from the foam of the sea,

symbol of charm and femininity (with

one part corrupting and manhating).

Wife of Hephaestus and lover of Ares.

Roman goddess VENUS

symbol of the love and of

fertility.

Greek god of war, ARES

god of the war and the spring,

he conquered the heart of Aphrodite

who deceived Hephaestus.

Roman god MARS

god of the war;

cruel son of Jupiter.

Greek goddess ATHENA

of the reason, of wisdom, a chaste virgin,

founder and protector of Athens.

Roman goddess MINERVA

represented at the Capitol

beside Jupiter and Juno.

Greek goddess ARTEMIS

sister of Apollon - goddess of the moon

and of hunting.

Roman goddess DIANE

goddess of hunting.

Temple at Capoue in Campania.

Greek god APOLLO

brother of ARTEMIS, son of Zeus,

called PHEBUS again (phoibos)

god of the solar light charms

A god of healing and purifying

god of the orpheical religion

Roman god APOLLO (idem)

lover of physical beauty,

a singer and a poet but also a

dangerous maniac who didn't hesitate

to kill his lovers to rape nymphs...

Greek god EROS

a winged child with arrows;

begotten of the primitive chaos, he

was at first the god of unity in the

universe, through his powers of

attraction. He later became the god

of love that unites all beings.

Roman god CUPID

functioned in the same way in Roman

mythology.

LIST of the famous offspring of
CHRONOS

ZEUS / Jupiter
-
POSEIDON
/ Neptune andHADESthegod of the
underworld

Also three daughters
:

HERA
- DEMETER and HESTIA

Demeter :

the daughter of the fruitful Earth
(Ceres to the Romans.) She ensured abundant
harvests. This cult with the renewal of the seasons is a metaphor for eternal
life.

Troubled by the kidnapping of Core (or Persephone) her daughter with her
union with her brother Zeus.) She traveled over the Earth and entered the
service of king Eleusis as a nurse. During this time, the Earth became sterile.
She refused to reclaim her divine duties until she had obtained from Zeus
a compromise with Hades, the ravisher of her daughter.

Core became the queen of the underworld, staying 3 months (of winter) with
Hades and 9 month with her mother. Demeter was also united with
Iasion and had a blind son
"PLOUTOS", the god of wealth who favored
both the good and bad; and the messenger Arion (born through her union with
Poseidon, the god of the sea).

Hestia:

the oldest daughter of Chronos, the goddess of the home (associated with
the virgin Vesta of the Romans), she
incarnated civilization, with its social and religious stability.

THE FAVORITE WIVES OF ZEUS AND THEIR
CHILDREN :

A.First wife: HERA
(who was also the sister of
ZEUS)

She was wicked, bad tempered, jealous and spiteful. She gave Zeus four children
: Ares, Hebe, Hephaistos and Ilithie.

Ares:

(Mars to the Romans), the cruel god of war.

Hebe:

the goddess of youth who served up the nectar of the gods before being kidnapped
by Ganymede, prince of Troy. (This handsome mortal young man was to be
immortalized by Zeus). Later she married Heracles (Hercules).

Hephaestus:

the god of iron and metals. He was so villainous that his mother threw him
down from the summit of Mount Olympus at his birth and he remained lame.
He was a clever artisan and with the Cyclops, he made the famous lightening
beneath the volcanic mountains. On learning of his wife
Aphrodite's adultery with Ares, he enclosed
them in an invisible net to expose them to the scorn of the other gods.

Eileithyia :

The goddess of childbirth was sometimes used by her mother Hera to achieve
revenge.

B. Second wife of ZEUS : LETO,
a daughter of the
Titans

gave him twins: ARTEMIS and
APOLLO. She was persecuted by jealous
Hera, who hounded her until the only place she could find to give birth was
a deserted island. After nine days of suffering Eileithyia (the goddess of
childbirth) helped her deliver her twins. The Romans named her Latona.

C.
Third wife of Zeus: ALCMENE,
a princess of Mycene, a noble
mortal

ZEUS appeared before her in the form of her husband Amphitryon. She gave
birth to Heracles and drew to herself
and her son all the damning vengeance of Hera.

THE FAVORITES OF ZEUS and their children :

Dion :

A daughter of the ocean and through her union with Zeus, she gave birth to
Aphrodite, the goddess of love and fertility,
who became the Roman goddess Venus.

Semele :

The daughter of Cadmos (the brother of Europa) and Harmonie (the daughter
of Ares and Aphrodite). She became pregnant with
Dionysos through her union with ZEUS.
She died in the sixth month of her pregnancy, overcome by the sight of her
lover in all his glory. ZEUS rescued the embryo and brought it to full term
in his thigh!

Dionysos :

Son of ZEUS and Semele, he was the god
of the grapevine (Roman Bacchus). Hera struck him down with madness, then
he was purified by Cybele in Phrygia. Aphrodite gave him two sons (Priap
and Hymen).

INO :

She was the sister of Semele and the second wife of Athamas. She tried to
kill her lovely children Phyxos and Helle, who were saved by their father
Athamas who took flight with a goat with fleece of gold.

After becoming the wet nurse of Dionysos, the son of her sister Semele, she
drew the vengeance of Hera to her. She became mad and killed her children
and husband, then threw herself with the body of her younger son into the
sea. She became thus Leucothea: the white
goddess.

Europe :

The daughter of Agenor, the king of Phoenicia, ZEUS transformed himself into
a white bull, and set her down in Crete. From their union were born the children
Minos, Sarpedon and Rhadamanthus.

Minos :

The son of ZEUS and Europa, he civilized Crete. He was elected
king of Crete but as his brother disputed
the throne, he made Poseidon his arbitrator. Poseidon made a bull rise from
the sea to prove that Minos was elected by the gods. However, not wanting
to sacrifice the bull to the gods as promised, Poseidon made the bull angry
whereupon he seduced Pasiphae, the wife of
Minos. Hercules killed the bull, but from the union Pasiphae gave
birth to the MINOTAUR, a monster who
was half man and half bull. Minos kept him in a labyrinth where he was fed
7 young boys and 7 young girls every nine years. Theseus, (the son of Poseidon)
took on the form of Egeus to trick his wife, did six great exploits, then
went to kill the monster. Using the thread of Ariadne, (the daughter of Minos)
he was able to get out of the labyrinth. Wise and just, he was considered
to be one of the three judges in hell.

Pasiphae :

Daughter of the Sun and of Clymene, she
married king Minos and bore him : Ariadne, Androgea
and Phedre.

Rhadamanthus :

Son of Zeus and Europa, (and brother of Sarpedon and Minos), he was reputed
to be very wise, and after his death became one of three "judges of hell"
with Minos and Eaque.

Sarpedon :

Son of ZEUS and Europa, brother of Minos and Rhadamanthus , he became king
of Lycia and the ally of King Priam.

Eaque :

The Son of ZEUS and Egina (the famous
island of marble) was considered to be a hero. At his request, ZEUS changed
all the ants on the island of Oenone into men. Pious and just, Plato appointed
him one of the three judges of hell.

THE CHILDREN OF HELIOS, the Sun
GOD

HELIOS :

The sun god was preceded by Eos (the dawn) and followed by Selene (the moon).
He crossed the sky in a chariot of fire.

Clymene :

One of the 3000 Oceanides, the daughters of the ocean, who personified the
springs and wells of water, the streams, the sea and the waves. Wife of the
Titan Japet, the mother of Altas, Prometheus and Epimetheus. With
HELIOS she gave birth to
Phaeton and the Heliades.

Phaeton :

Son of HELIOS and the Oceanide Clymene. Having permission from his father
to drive his chariot for a day, he took the reins of the celestial horses.
Frightened at the sight of the animals of the sign of Zodiac, he lost control
of the chariot and started to destroy the mountains. As he was about to collide
with the constellations of the sky, ZEUS struck him down to protect the Universe.

Heliades :

Considered to be the 3 or 5 daughters of HELIOS and Clymene, they wept so
much over the death of Phaeton that the gods transformed them into poplar
trees. Their tears became drops of amber.

Circe :

A magician, daughter of Helios and sister of Pasipha, she transformed the
friends of Ulysses into pigs and had a son, Telegone, by him.

Phedre :

Daughter of Pasipha and Minos, she married TESE. Then she fill in love with
her son in law, Hippolyte who persisted in rejecting her advances. During
this, Tese asked Poseidon to kill Hippolyte. Desperate, Phedre hanged herself!

Ariadne :

Sister of Phedre. She fell in love with Tese when he went to Crete to kill
the Minataur and gave him a thread so that he could find his way out of the
Labyrinth. Carried off by Tese, he abandoned her on the island of Naxos,
where Dionysos, seduced by her beauty, married her.

Androgen :

Brother of Phedre and Ariadne , he was killed by Egeus, King of Athens, who
was jealous of his sporting prowess. To avenge his death, ZEUS sent a plague
to Athens and Minos. Minos persuaded the Athenians to give 14 young people
as food to placate the Minataur!

WRITINGS BY THE ANCIENT GREEK
PHILOSOPHERS :

This portrait of the origins, the wives and conquest of
ZEUS (the king of the gods of Olympus)
gives us an idea of the Greek religion,
which appears to have scoffed at moral conventions.

But to understand and digest the extracts from Plato's texts which we shall
analyze together, we must study the beliefs and mythology which were taught
in Greece in the IVth and Vth centuries before
Christ.

S O L O N (born 640 BC, died
558BC).

He was a poet, philosopher and a great citizen of Athens. Elected
"Archonte" in
594BC by the citizens, he was given sweeping powers. He prevented
a civil war between the Eupatrides, (the aristocracy), and the lower classes,
who were threatened by slavery. His great reforms, giving equality and the
right to vote to all classes in the Assembly of the people contributed greatly
to the development of Athens. Classed among the
7 sages, Plato considered him to be the greatest of the poets
of antiquity.

Let us try to summarize the situation in the Middle East at this time. Remember
that Egypt was completely dominated by the Assynians, who had come to pillage
the fabulous riches of Thebes in 664 BC. But in 612 BC it was the turn of
Ninevah to be destroyed by the Babylonians.

In Egypt, Necho II (who ruled at SAIS
over the Northern Kingdom) took advantage of this and reconquered Palestine,
Syria and the famous city of Karkemish. But in 605BC prince Nebuchadnesor
II inflicted a massive defeat on the Egyptians and retook Karkemish. Two
months later, Nabopolassar died and his son Nebuchadnesor II succeeded him
on the throne of Babylon.

It is very possible that during this time, SOLON
the ARCHONTof Athens was
in Egypt and especially in the capital
Sais.

(Can we for a moment imagine this capital so grand
and important as it was then ? Now we can only guess its appropriate
location).

Yet the status and qualities
of this great man show themselves
in that his legacy influenced the writings of
PLATO!

S O C R A T E S (Born 470 BC,
died 399BC).

Although, he lived only a short time he had a full life. He was a man of
two faces; he was considered by some to be a corrupter of youth and by others
as the father of philosophical thought. Condemned by the legal authorities,
he felt he had to drink poison (Hemlock.) Anytos, Melitos and Lycon betrayed
him. PLATO was his pupil and spent his entire life restoring SOCRATES' good
name and banishing Lycon for initiating the process, which had condemned
his former Master.

In an extract of the Timaeus, Plato relates
the discussion between Cristias and SOCRATES
about evidence discovered by Solon from an old priest who had
been in authority in Sais and who claimed to be a descendent of the great
Imhotep.

P L A T O (Born
428BC, died 348BC).

A former pupil of SOCRATES, (from 408BC to 399BC), followed his co-disciple
Euclid to Megare after the suicide of their Master, where they founded a
school of philosophy. After a very eventful voyage to Sicily, PLATO returned
to Athens in 38BC to found his own school of Philosophy which Aristotle attended.
(Aristotle was to be the Father of Logic and the
Prince of philosophers).

Euclid of Megave wrote a "Treatise on truth, unity and the eternity of being".
PLATO in his search for mystical ideals wrote :

"All knowledge is a perceptionof the soul of the realities of life.
The superior form of KNOWLEDGE is a visionary approach to the essence of
being, the first principle of which is
the idea of good..."

Extracts from the TIMAEUS (PLATO) : about
the voyage of Solon to Sais

At the time when Sais was the greatest city in the
Nile Delta, Solon (our Archont
of Athens) went there to question the most learned priests in Egypt about
the past. One day, as Solon discussed with this noble assembly the history
of the first man known on earth and about the last
flood, a wise old priest replied to him and taught Solon in these
words :

- " Solon you Greeks are mentally like children Is there not an aged sage
among you ? "

Taken back, Solon asked him what he meant by these words.

The priest replied :

- " You all too young in spirit and have no ideas handed down from ancient
traditions, no knowledge from ancient times." He explained further :

" Many disasters have
befallen humanity and many more will do
so, the worst from water and
fire, and the least by asteroids and meteorites, which spin around
the sky and the earth.

Some of these celestial bodies will change their
trajectories, and eventually all who live
on earth will be subjected to violent explosions. Those who live
on the mountains will perish. Also, when the gods purify the Earth and
flood it, those who live near the rivers
and streams will be carried by the water to the sea.

Every time you (Greeks) or other nations start to write and gather together
the first rudiments of civilization, the furies of the sky crash down on
you. The only ones who escape are the illiterate and the ignorant. So you
must relearn everything whilst forgetting your past
completely !

For the soul, observe how "Natural Law"
has taken care of everything since the beginning of the world. It reveals
to us everything through intuition, the art of medicine, religious knowledge
(which teaches human beings about eternal life), and all the sciences, which
follow from these."

"The great (mother) goddess chose the
place of your birth, knowing that there would be a propitious place to engender
a race of men in her image........ in just the same way as
the sons and students of
the gods..."

(Critias p.108 109.) "My dear Hermocrates, I want to point out to you 9,000
years have passed since the war broke out
on both sides of the columns of Hercules... (the Atlantean civil
war)

Knowing now that the deluge took place in the year 8,975BC, one wonders if
there was a link between that war and the consequences of the deluge?

(Critias continues) " I have earnestly studied in my youth
the manuscripts (of the discourse of Solon). They
were handed down by my grandfather and are now in my possession.
In the past the gods separated the earth into different parts for which they
drew lots. Poseidon received the Island of Atlantis and placed his children
there (whom he had with a mortal called Leucipe(!) whose parents had just
died. Poseidon had fallen in love with the young women and she bore five
generations each of who had a twin brother!

The first born was Atlas and was named
King of the Island of Atlantis and gave his name to the Ocean which surrounded
it. The second born was given the end of the Island towards the
Columns of Hercules, across from the
region now called CADES " (!)

Was this the town of Cades in Sinai or
an ancient town of the same name? Why do we still call the Straits Of Gibraltar"
"The Columns of Hercules", and why are the two mountain chains that separate
Marocco from Sahara still called the Middle and High
Atlas Mountains?

Poseidon named the second twin Eumelos which means Gadiros. The second twins
Poseidon named Ampheres and Evaimon. The third pair were Mneseas and Autochtonos.
The fourth pair was Elasippos and his twin Mestor. The fifth pair was Azaes
and Diaprepres.

As with the descendent of Noah, will these names one-day call to mind towns
or islands or lands long since gone ?

All were lords of several islands in the
sea but they ruled also the area inside
the Columns of Hercules, that is the lands from
Egypt to Tyrrenia/ (Erutria /Italy)...
(almost all the Mediterranean basin.)

Then PLATO describes the main island with the palace of Poseidon, the athletics
fields; the many temples dedicated to the gods, the great ports and the arsenals
full of ships.

Every 6 years the ten kings got together to jointly administer justice, then
they released a bull into an arena where the kings must catch and butcher
him, using only a sword and nets.

Each king had his own special talent and each had to help the others if
enemies threatened (?) Despite their
wealth, they were virtuous men, living
modestly and without materialistic things of life. However, one day the divine
element within them dwindled, due to their union
with mortals and the human element flourished...

So ZEUS, the god of all gods, judged the kings who had been so pure and chastised
them to punish them and lead them to reflect...

- - - - - - - - - - -

It is difficult to sort out the evidence, which has come down to us over
thousands of years (particularly from
Greece!) and all from different viewpoints. Many scholars have
done research into the Old Kingdom of Athens, some seeing the center in Crete,
(J.V. Luce), in Nigeria (Leo Frobenius), or simply as beneath the Mediterranean
or the Atlantic Ocean.

Crete and the Canary Islands are ancient volcanic islands and when one considers
that the ice-field covered Europe as far as Provence, it is highly probable
that an ancient civilization developed in the Mediterranean basin. We know
only that PLATO'S descriptions are confusing (he expresses himself often
in "stades" - a Greek unit of measurement
of about 600 feet) instead of in "thousands
of miles" (a mile=1609m), which are the real measure of continents.

The real problem is therefore not where Atlantis was located, or at such
and such a time (with its survivors), but we want to know
where their knowledge came from and how
they transmitted it to future generations.

Unlike many "lost" civilizations, the first inhabitants of the Kingdom of
Atlantis were a very peaceful and civilized people. According to PLATO, there
existed complete agreement among the 10
kings who governed ALL the Mediterranean
basin, and perhaps part of central Africa, where they practiced
circumcision and even excision on children at puberty. It is truly a shame
that Plato's version is "exaggeratedly
Hellenistic" to please his contemporaries...

Did the wicked inhabitants of Atlantis exile their good brothers to the
mountains? As "the fruit does not fall far from
the tree", we should not be surprised to find
(not far from Egypt) a base which had
served the ancient Atlanteans, who since the first official dynasty had stated
to infiltrate the spirit of the Egyptians (around 3,000BC, when the funeral
mastabas appeared.) This was considerably enhanced with the nomination of
Imhotep as Vizier and chief architect making him responsible for directing
the new religion and the work on the first
great step pyramid of King Djeser.

From then on, Egypt was covered with temples, whose monumental columns spoke
for themselves, showing the greatness of their faith, together with the
insignificance of man.

Paradoxically, in Greece a philosophy was developing which, far from searching
for the spirit of idealism, exalted artful wit,
jealousy and infidelity. It is quite probable that Solon received
from the old priest of Sais much more information about the history of Atlantis
but most of the people who read it found it
incomprehensible or incompatible with
their own ideas.

We must go to the apostle Paul to understand how much the Greeks were blinded
by their materialistic existence and attitudes. In his first letter, Paul
reproached the Corinthian Christians for their
materialism and lack of unity :

(from the New English Bible)
"You say - I am Paul's man or am for Appollos; I follow Cephus or I am for
Christ."

This doctrine of the cross is sheer folly to those on their way to ruin,
but to us who are on the way to salvation it is the power of God.
To shame the wise, God has chosen what the world
counts folly; and to shame what is strong, God has chosen what
the world counts weakness. I speak of God's hidden wisdom, his secret purpose
framed from the very beginning to bring
us to our full glory.

A man who is unspiritual refuses to see
what belongs to the Spirit of God; it is folly to him.
The spiritual man can judge the worth of everything
spiritually... if someone among you thinks
he is wise,
let him become foolish in order to become wise!

In Acts 17-32 with the Athenians :When they heard about
the raising of the dead, some
scoffed, and others said :

- "We will hear you on this subject some other time."

Solon must have encountered the same problems
when he returned to Athens and spoke of the pyramids, and of the
temples to Osiris; of the perfect, invisible God who judges the actions of
their lives when they died. So we should not be surprised if the speeches
and the manuscripts remained hidden at the bottom
of chests belonging to some of his closest friends.